Over the past few years, my favourite videos have been those put together by John Geddert, coach of Jordyn Wieber and dozens of excellent athletes.
His Yurchenko DVD is still the best single resource out there.
Previously you had to email John … or see him at an event … to buy them. Those days are over.
Brilliantly, John’s using Facebook to promote and distribute.
If you are a member of Facebook, click through to his DVDs page.
They are $30ea or 4 for $100. (Ask your club to buy them for the staff.)
He will have a website, as well. But it’s not up and running, as yet.
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NOTICE: Starting Oct. 1st this site is going to start linking directly to Facebook pages. If you are not a member, that’s going to be frustrating.
But even Dave Adlard and Miguel Costante have joined FB. How many more coach holdouts could there be?
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I guess you don’t think facebook is evil anymore.
http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/2010/05/facebook-is-evil-…-alternatives/#comments
No, Facebook is evil. But I’ve learned to live with the devil. And I’m one of the few people who don’t care about privacy.
For me personally Facebook is fantastic, twitter near useless.
How is twitter more useless than Facebook? With twitter you can send out quick hits, it potentially reaches more people because people can re-tweet your posts. I’d think you’d embrace twitter. You can reach exponentially many more people than facebook because of retweets. With facebook, a finite amount of people see it. Not so with Twitter.
I find most tweets either cryptic or of little importance.
Any time I check Facebook I get valuable stuff: photos, videos, a description of what the link is and why my “friend” thinks it’s important.
Posts on Facebook get read by a lot of my very small pool of friends. My tweets go mostly unread, I believe.
Time will tell whether or not it’s a fad. I’ve been shocked to see it last this long.
The retweeting function is a BIG advantage over Facebook, agreed. But I’ve never had a single Gymnastics Coaching tweet go viral.
But the very best thing about twitter is watching real time public tweets during a big event. The opening ceremonies Winter Olympics 2010 was a BLAST on twitter.
Um, you can “retweet” on Facebook, too. That’s the “share” link you can click. So if you’re friends want to spread your status around, they can do it just as easily. There’s nothing Twitter does that isn’t already covered in FB. Twitter is a wheel, FB is a car.
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